Citation Verification

by Galaxy-Dawn

Citation Verification is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by Galaxy-Dawn in claude-scholar.

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Install Citation Verification

Copy Citation Verification into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar/tree/main/skills/citation-verification ~/.claude/skills/citation-verification

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/citation-verification/SKILL.md in Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/citation-verification
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Citation Verification does

Citation Verification provides reference guidance for verifying academic citations during paper writing. Use it when checking citation accuracy, preventing fake citations, or integrating verification into an ML paper workflow.

Citation Verification is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Citation Verification comes from a repository tagged academic-research, ai-agents, claude, claude-code and codex-cli.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Citation Verification Reference Guide

A reference guide for citation verification in academic paper writing, providing verification principles and best practices.

Core Principle: Proactively verify every citation during the writing process using programmatic or canonical scholarly sources first: arXiv, DOI/CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, publisher landing pages, and Zotero metadata. Google Scholar is useful for manual discovery, but it is not the canonical verification authority.

Core Problems

Citation issues in academic papers seriously impact research integrity:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Citation Verification

What else does Galaxy-Dawn publish alongside Citation Verification?
Citation Verification is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Identifier, Architecture Design and Bug Detective. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Citation Verification does, and is maintained by Galaxy-Dawn in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar page.
How does Citation Verification compare to other Writing skills?
Citation Verification ranks #140 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Citation Verification against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.